Comments on: New York Times’ Knee-Jerk Review of ‘Soraya’ is Dead Wrong

By: Mouhanad

Mouhanad — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:53:30 +0000

I saw The Stoning of Soraya M. Yesterday.
The movie is so powerful, its scary!
I hope u read my little review about it on my blog Not Sure…

http://mouhanad.wordpress.com/

Thanks!

By: Cube

Cube — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:43:47 +0000

I’ll watch any flick. Saw Passion twice. That’s not what bothers me. I will unfairly prejudge this movie. One of the producers did “An American Carol.” Perhaps the worst movie I’ve seen in years. I had to turn it off. I too am irked by the Passion crossovers. In production and cast. Why is the Right pumping this film so hard, even if it stands on its own? Ziegler, Hot Air, and the production crew. It may be a fine film I thought passion was a good film. But, at least I knew what I was getting. Everyone is against stoning women, why the push from the Right?

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:55:29 +0000

Hilts, one would suspect that if the Times couldn’t be bothered to get it’s other facts straight, it wouldn’t be a stretch to call for a little artistic license.

By: Hilts

Hilts — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:11:14 +0000

Yes but Bush wsa not President when this event took place (1986).

By: Ike Pigott

Ike Pigott — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 14:30:51 +0000

Maybe the scene would have had a better reception is Soraya said something moving and poignant, such as:

“Allah, Allah! Forgive these men for acting out with aggression in dispensing the justice I deserve! They know not what they do, angered by the failed policies of the Bush Administration. The stones strike me with renewed vigor not because they were meant for me, but are thrust with a thirst for justice, as though personally heaved at the great Satan Cheney and his unholy minions of Halliburton and Blackwater! How much better off I would be to die still possessing the noble glory that comes to all free citizens who have not been ravaged by NeoCons bent on raping them of their natural resources!”

There’s a reason I am not a screenwriter.